We have four young children and are looking traveling Australia for 4-6 months and homeschooling the kids along the way.
We will have one child starting primary school, one in grade 2, one in grade 6 and one in year 8 at the time we plan to leave.
Just after experiences from people who have done this? And a rough price we will have to save to be able to do this? And the impact it had on your kids? And their friendship groups coming back and if we will actually teach them enough so they don’t fall behind?
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Join some fb page, traveling Australia with kids. There is lots of info on there.
We did 6 months in our van, we didn’t have much money. Had an old van and 4 x 4, it’s what you make it. Join wiki camps, stay in show grounds or free camps and you will save so much money.
We stayed in show grounds or free camps and only stayed in caravan parks that had longer term cheap weekly rates or now and then a night for a treat so the kids had the pool etc but didn’t need it really.
Sole people have budgets of $1000-1500 a week for petrol and food etc. there’s no way we could have done that.
You do what you do, with what you have.
My parents, me and my twin sister travelled Australia for a year when we were 9years old in a caravan and were home schooled. I’m an adult now but I often think back of that time as such a good experience and so many good memories. We learnt so much on the road and made new friends at camp sites etc.
We didn’t fall behind at school and we still kept in touch with our friends that we left. If anything we had so many stories to tell.
I think of it as a very positive experience!